"I would like to discuss the next matter with you alone, Your Excellency Priest Fengshu."
As soon as Vanya finished speaking, Bahoda frowned slightly.
"That's impossible. I need to protect Lord Amman. I won't retreat. Sister, if you have anything to say, just say it directly. Don't use tricks."
Bahoda spoke to Vanya in a stern tone, but Vanya did not respond directly to Bahoda's words. Instead, she faced Amman in front of her, put her hands on her chest, and then quickly moved and made a series of gestures.
Vanya's hands moved flexibly in front of her chest, sometimes clasping and sometimes relaxing, as if she was performing a series of performances with her hands. In these performances, her hands were like embryos growing and seeds sprouting... Amman couldn't help but widen his eyes and open his mouth slightly after seeing Vanya's gestures.
"What are you doing! Stop it!"
Seeing Vanya's unusual behavior, Bahoda immediately prepared to stop her, but Amman immediately stopped her.
"You step back first, Bahoda..."
"What, Lord Amman...this nun just now..." Bahoda showed an expression of disbelief after hearing Amman's words, and Amman spoke again before Bahoda could finish what he was saying.
"I know. It's okay. Just listen to me and go back first. I'll talk to her alone. She can't threaten me."
"Yes..." Listening to Amman's words, Bahoda's expression showed confusion and worry. Finally, he decided to listen to Amman's words and left the long house alone. For a while, only Vanya and Amman were left at the scene.
"Sit down."
Amman spoke softly to Vanya, and seeing Vanya sitting on the ground in front of him, he added some firewood to the fire pit in front of him, and then continued.
"Where...did you learn those gestures?"
"I have been able to do this since I was a child. My former hometown priest sister taught me."
Vanya responded to Amman sincerely. Hearing Vanya's words, Amman was stunned, and then spoke slowly.
"Your former hometown? Where is your hometown? What do the priests you mentioned worship?"
"My hometown is on a distant continent. It was originally an independent and remote settlement, just like yours, retaining its own unique beliefs and culture. But now, it has become a pious temple for the Virgin Mary. The priest sister who teaches me worships the same thing as you do, the Mother of Plenty.
"Yes, I am actually a devout believer of the Goddess of Fertility just like you. We share the same belief."
Covering her chest, Vanya spoke silently to Amman. Listening to Vanya's words, Amman opened his mouth silently, with a hint of obvious surprise in his eyes.
"Of course... I didn't expect that, in this world, besides us, there are other believers of the goddess. It seems that what the previous priests said was right. The belief in the goddess once spread all over the continent. We just think of it as a small part of it. Ha... After fighting with the Huiguang for a long time, I thought that the outside world was completely their world.
"I've heard from Bahoda and the others that you are different from the other radiants. You couldn't defeat me on the ship and took the initiative to treat them. It turns out that you are also a believer of the goddess..."
Amman murmured with a look of surprise. He obviously had not expected that the nun in front of him was of the same faith as them.
"Yes, I didn't expect to meet the remnants of the goddess in this remote sea. I sensed something when I talked to the warriors. After arriving on the island and seeing the many decorations and sculptures, I was convinced. Just now, I finally made up my mind to meet the priest here, so I took the excuse of the glowing message."
Facing Amman's sigh, Vanya also spoke very sincerely. After listening to Vanya's words, Amman sighed and spoke.
"Ah...Is that so? I thought you really brought news about Hui Guang. Now the fate of our entire clan depends on it."
There was a hint of loss in Amman's words. Although meeting the goddess's believers other than Xia Shu seemed to make him feel a little happy, but as far as the current situation was concerned, he was more concerned about the recovery of the glow. After all, this was the most important matter concerning their entire tribe at the moment.
Seeing the disappointment in Anman's eyes, Vanya paused slightly, then continued speaking.
"Your Excellency the Priest, you are using us as a threat to ask the church to give up their forced mission to Xia Shu. You want to use the pilgrims of Huiguang as a bargaining chip to make them respect the faith of the goddess. Do you think the church will really accept this condition? Will the church really negotiate with you for us pilgrims?"
Vanya spoke to Amman in a serious tone. After listening to Vanya's words, Amman paused, then spoke with a slightly changed tone.
"What do you want to say?"
"What I want to say is very simple. Based on my understanding of the church, they will never agree to your conditions. Even if all of us pilgrims are killed by you, Huiguang will not compromise with Xia Shu in the slightest. Instead, it will lead to more brutal revenge. So what I want to warn His Excellency the priest is that you should not expect to achieve your goal by threatening the church with us. The church would rather abandon us than agree to your conditions. If this continues, Xia Shu's fate will only be destruction.
"Your Excellency the Priest, do you really want to lead the entire Xiashu to such an end?"
Vanya said solemnly to Amman that Dorothy had read the secret records about the church's methods of dealing with heretics and pagans, and she knew where the church's bottom line was. The church would not make any concessions to pagans for the sake of a few dozen people.
After listening to Vanya's words, Amman was silent for a moment. He sat there for a long time without changing his expression, and then spoke seriously.
"Of course I know that the church will not give in so easily, but we also have a bottom line that cannot be compromised. Xia Shu was once a disabled abandoned person. It was the goddess's grace that allowed us to have the qualifications to survive. Xia Shu cannot do without the goddess. Xia Shu's foundation is the goddess. The respect for the goddess is also the meaning of Xia Shu's existence. The belief in the goddess is the foundation of Xia Shu's continuation. Huiguang cannot compromise, and so do we. We will not accept Huiguang's belief."
Amman said decisively, then his words became harsh and his expression became more alert. He pointed at Vanya in front of him and spoke bluntly.
"As a believer of the goddess, you just said those words, are you trying to make us give up and convert to glory? Although you call yourself a believer of the goddess, your words are always about glory. Is your belief true or false? Did you just learn those gestures by chance and want to deceive me?
"I have never heard of a nun who believes in abundance under the nose of the church. The rituals of the Glory are so numerous and so strict. How can you hide your own beliefs from them? You are so suspicious. Did the Glory teach you those gestures so that you can pretend to be a convert to abundance and convert to the Glory, so as to impress me and make me surrender? If so, I can tell you that this is impossible!"
Amman spoke to Vanya sternly. In fact, from the very beginning, he did not really trust that Vanya was another believer of the Goddess of Fertility just because of a gesture. He had been vigilant from the beginning. He was just pretending to trust the other party to get better answers.
After hearing what Vanya said just now, Amman directly suspected that Vanya was not a believer of the Goddess of Plenty, but simply a nun of the church. The church taught her these gestures and asked her to pretend to be a believer of Plenty to establish an image of a believer of Plenty who had converted to the aura in front of Amman, in an attempt to impress Amman with such an image. After all, some of these gestures were not complicated and anyone could learn them.
Facing Amman's loud questioning, Vanya did not react too much, but continued to sit there quietly, then looked at the vigilant Amman and spoke slowly.
"Of course I am a believer of the goddess. Your Excellency the Priest, you don't have to doubt this. If those priests can't prove anything with their gestures, I can come up with a more powerful way of proof later.
"As for why I can believe in the goddess under the nose of the church, it is actually very simple. I only need to worship the Virgin Mary of the Trinity of Glory, or the Mother of Plenty."
Vanya spoke to Amman seriously. Listening to Vanya's words, Amman was stunned. After digesting Vanya's words, he murmured.
"What...? You're worshipping the Holy Mother of Light as if she were a goddess?"
"Yes, this is the method I use to maintain my faith under the light, a set of ten effective methods, and it is also the method I want to recommend to you.
"You can convert to the aura like I did, overlap the image of the Virgin Mary with the Mother of Plenty, and worship the Virgin Mary as the Mother of Plenty. I have the corresponding method here."
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